· Public charity
Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc
Grants and community programs on behalf of the jewish community and the foundation's agency funds.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 167 grants below total $10,029,205 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,956,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,927,145 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k104 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER (UJFT) | $2,565,580 |
| FORKIDS INC | $501,200 |
| TORAS CHAIM THE RABBI CHAIM SHERESHEVSKY INSTITUTE OF MESORAH LEARNING | $435,076 |
| NORFOLK AREA COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $297,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $258,038 |
| ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $226,536 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC) | $222,254 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER DBA STRELITZ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY | $220,423 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC | $220,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA D'MIR INC | $213,600 |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | $192,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS | $177,712 |
| VIRGINIA MOCA | $161,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF S HAMPTON ROADS | $159,638 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (FIDF) | $130,652 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 108 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $767k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCToras Chaim The Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky Institute Of Mesorah9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +104% · 46% of their budget
- HHHOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $2.1M · revenue ×27
- HAHEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER STRELITZ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- RSRODEF SHOLOM TEMPLEone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $120k
- YTYESHIVA TORAS ARON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem
To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
To provide the highest quality jewish and general education for high school age children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
279 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 279 of the 365 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds Toras Chaim The Rabbi Chaim Shereshevsky Institute Of Mesorah ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF TIDEWATER STRELITZ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK AREA COMMUNITY KOLLEL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Virginia ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds BINA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF NORFOLK INC ↗
- Who funds KAD RIVKAH-HACHNOSAS KALLOH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF TIDEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UJFT COMMUNITY CAMPUS LLC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH MAYAN HATORAH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Donors Fund Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Hebrew Academy of Cleveland · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Townebank Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.